THE NEW BILLY IDOL
If it seems we were talking about Billy Idol’s third album, Whiplash Smile, months ago...well, we were. Just like everyone else. And—just like everyone else—we wonder why it took so long to finish. "Everybody bothers you to death about when’s your record coming out?’”
THE NEW BILLY IDOL
If it seems we were talking about Billy Idol’s third album, Whiplash Smile, months ago...well, we were. Just like everyone else. And—just like everyone else—we wonder why it took so long to finish.
"Everybody bothers you to death about when’s your record coming out?’” Billy says.
I’d rather they didn’t know I was doing one!”
As is his habit nowadays, Idol decided that it wouldn’t be worth his own (or his fans’) time to rush the project. Instead, he took some time ‘‘to actually live” and then base his new songs around his own experiences.
‘‘I told the people they’re gonna have to wait and I’m gonna han to live and do my recor and be someone for real,” he maintains. ‘‘This way it isn’t som, thing I tried to write in two-and-a-half weeks saying, ‘Where are wel going?’ This way I’vef kept to what directionl wanted to go, and been able to explore a a bit as well.”